Facilitating Knowledge Exchange Across Sectors and Scales
Sharing Practices
See How ENOS Makes a Difference Across Europe
ENOS acts as a hub for connecting and exchanging knowledge among outdoor sports stakeholders across Europe. We believe that collective intelligence, intersectoral dialogue, and multi-level learning are essential to strengthen the sector’s social, environmental, and recreational impact. Sharing knowledge is not an end in itself: it is a strategic lever to shape policies, inspire innovation, and create resilient, inclusive outdoor communities.
Our Purpose and Principles
The ENOS knowledge-sharing approach is guided by three complementary principles:
- Intersectorality: effective solutions emerge when sport, environment, health, tourism, education, and planning actors engage in sustained dialogue.
- Evidence and practice-led: research, field experience, and lived insights inform all initiatives, ensuring practical relevance.
- Multi-level connectivity: knowledge must flow across local, regional, national, and European scales to be actionable and impactful.
By adhering to these principles, ENOS ensures that every knowledge exchange strengthens the sector’s capacity to innovate, adapt, and scale.
1. Network Dialogue
ENOS maintains ongoing communication with stakeholders through newsletters, discussion forums, and targeted outreach. This keeps practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and environmental actors connected, encouraging continuous peer learning and the cross-pollination of ideas.
2. Events and Gatherings
We organize conferences, workshops, seminars, and webinars—most notably EuroMeet—to provide spaces for sharing experience, showcasing innovation, and fostering collaboration. Events are carefully designed to combine inspiration, evidence, and operational insight, ensuring participants leave equipped to act in their own contexts.
3. Expert Structures
Thematic Expert Groups and the Scientific Committee generate, curate, and validate knowledge on emerging challenges, intersectoral opportunities, and best practices. These structures act as both content incubators and critical reviewers, ensuring that ENOS guidance is both scientifically sound and practically relevant.
4. Linking Policy, Practice, and Research
ENOS bridges the gap between research, policy, and field practice. Insights from practitioners inform policy development; scientific evidence guides operational decisions; and local initiatives feed into European-level strategies. This triangular knowledge flow ensures that lessons are actionable, scalable, and sensitive to local realities.
Operational Levers
To make knowledge exchange tangible and actionable, ENOS employs a variety of tools:
- Thought Leadership: producing position papers, case studies, and curated syntheses to guide policy, practice, and project design.
- Capacity Building: offering targeted webinars, workshops, and guidance to enhance the skills and competencies of practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.
- Coalition and Network Building: connecting stakeholders across sectors to co-create innovative solutions and harmonized approaches.
- Demonstration and Pilot Projects: showcasing practical interventions that can be scaled or adapted across regions (linked to initiatives like SEE, CONNECT, RE-SEA, ECOS N2K, Beyond Horizons).
Why It Matters
Europe’s outdoor sports and recreation sector is fragmented and diverse, with knowledge often siloed by country, sector, or discipline. ENOS provides a strategic hub that connects these dots, enabling stakeholders to:
- Learn from each other’s successes and failures.
- Integrate research and field practice into policy frameworks.
- Co-develop innovative, socially and environmentally responsible projects.
- Align local initiatives with European strategies to amplify impact.
How you Can Engage
At ENOS, every member—whether an organization or an individual—plays a role in shaping the future of outdoor sports and recreation in Europe. Engagement isn’t just a label; it’s an active contribution to a community that shares knowledge, drives innovation, and advocates for sustainable, socially inclusive, and environmentally responsible practices.
1.Connect, Share, and Learn
Take part in events, conferences, workshops, and informal exchanges across Europe. These opportunities foster cross-sector learning, inspire innovation, and create partnerships that wouldn’t exist otherwise.
2. Co-create Knowledge by participating in Expert communities
Join thematic discussions, share insights from your experience, and co-develop strategies that address key challenges across policy, research, and practice. Your voice helps shape collective outputs such as position papers, guidelines, and project ideas.
Link to the expert group page raining modules, webinars, or publications that help practitioners, policymakers, and communities implement best practices. These outputs make real-world impact and amplify the value of outdoor sports across Europe.
3. Engage in Pilot Initiatives
Get involved in innovative projects that connect research, policy, and practice. Participate in testing new methods for sustainable outdoor activity, inclusion programs, or cross-sector collaboration. Your expertise helps projects succeed and ensures they reflect both local realities and European ambitions.
4. Advocate and Amplify the Sector
Support ENOS’s advocacy mission by actively contributing to shaping the conversation around outdoor sports and recreation in Europe. You can:
- Propose and co-host dialogue sessions, podcast episodes,, webinars, workshops, or seminars to explore emerging challenges and opportunities.
- Participate in conferences and expert discussions that connect practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.
- Contribute to position papers, policy briefs, or manifestos that articulate the sector’s priorities and influence decision-making.
- Share insights, examples, and evidence from your experience to strengthen the collective voice of the network.
Your engagement fuels ENOS’s mission to make outdoor sports more inclusive, sustainable, and impactful.
- Translate local knowledge into European-level influence.
- Build stronger, more resilient networks for innovation and best practices.
- Ensure that outdoor activities continue to contribute positively to society, the environment, and public health.
Ready to Join?
We welcome all who are committed to advancing outdoor sports and nature-based recreation. To explore how you can contribute, share your ideas, or get involved in specific initiatives, contact: enos@outdoor-sports-network.eu
Every contribution counts—whether it’s sharing expertise, testing new approaches, or shaping policy. Together, we strengthen the network, empower communities, and ensure outdoor sports thrive across Europe.